On 11-Feb-2004, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Ben Finney">
> > The misbehaving MTA is the one that:
> >
> > - accepts the malware for delivery to a third person
> > - tries to deliver it to the destination, which rejects it
> > - sends a bounce message to the forged sender address
>> Meanwhile, there's shrapnel in *everyone's* butt.
Not at all. The destination has no shrapnel, since they rejected the
message. That's a solution that scales: every MTA that rejects it is
one less MTA acting as a vector for the shrapnel.
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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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